Like many of these proprietary systems the results will depend largely upon their adoption by the wider community, but the framework is there to bring some impressive results. Additionally the OLED display connects to various games and applications to give you a leg up on the competition or just an at-a-glance bit of information. It's easy to configure the Apex 7 to your exact requirements and the results are splendid with smooth, uniformly bright, colours across the whole keyboard. The watchword seems to be flexibility both in customisation capability and how you go about moulding it into your own shape. You can control it all using key combinations, or the OLED display, or the Steelseries Engine software. Yes it's naturally missing the ability to adjust the actuation point of the keys, but otherwise you have the same 'easy to use but powerful' lighting features and macro abilities of its bigger brother. The best of both worlds.Īdditionally the OLED display and software configuration which was so striking on the Apex Pro has been transplanted almost entirely wholesale to the Apex 7. Yet, somehow, it's also light enough to be relatively portable. It's incredibly robust with no flex or creak. Steelseries talk about how the Apex 7 is made from aircraft grade aluminium and we find nothing about it to disagree. It has the same incredibly curvaceous chassis with soft corners and a design which manages to place a premium upon having a tiny footprint without impacting the strength and rigidity in any way.
In every other regard the Apex 7 is identical to the Pro.
The only difference between the two models is that the Pro uses the Optipoint adjustable switches, whilst the 7 uses Steelseries own version of the Cherry MX Red switches, the QX2. If you have read the Apex Pro review then 95% of this will be familiar. Which begs the question, what about the Apex 7? Are the things it lacks a deal breaker or are the things it keeps enough to place it near to its bigger brother? In our review of the Steelseries Apex Pro we spoke about the many qualities it possessed which all combined to a glorious which installed a new boss at the top of the keyboard pile.
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